So basically Carmack is a smart kid who wanted his own spaceship, and he's building one? This is good stuff, Americans used to be known for this kind of innovation. How far exactly is Armadillo going to go with this? Is the goal something like low orbit hops for space tourism?
Armadillo mounted several small rocket engines on this rocket, and used their in-house designed control system to control the relative thrust of each engine to keep it stable. They are kind of programming wizards there; the guy who owns Armadillo is John Carmack, the same programmer who wrote Doom and Quake.
So basically Carmack is a smart kid who wanted his own spaceship, and he's building one? This is good stuff, Americans used to be known for this kind of innovation. How far exactly is Armadillo going to go with this? Is the goal something like low orbit hops for space tourism?
ston3pony 4 years ago
Wow that was very impressive.
gammaray0wn 5 years ago 2
very cool! good luck
metalwizard23 5 years ago
what are you using to stabalize that thing?
metalwizard23 5 years ago
Armadillo mounted several small rocket engines on this rocket, and used their in-house designed control system to control the relative thrust of each engine to keep it stable. They are kind of programming wizards there; the guy who owns Armadillo is John Carmack, the same programmer who wrote Doom and Quake.
robotguy 5 years ago
Man thats now really normal if thath was a real rocket it would explode!!! Good jOB
xXxmidgexXx 5 years ago
very impressive. congrats
Mikez0r 5 years ago
yes wombat, it is.
robotguy 5 years ago
Cool is that the one designed by the chap who made his million from the PC game Doom.?
wombatppc 5 years ago
thats not normal ! ! ! ! lol
austinpowers1977 5 years ago
Holy cow.
Fraleth 5 years ago